Quotes with powers-that-be

Quotes 81 till 100 of 127.

  • John Dewey Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Brad Bird That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • James Thurber The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Banneker The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Benito Mussolini The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Richard Burton The fear of some divine and supreme powers, keeps men in obedience.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carol P. Christ The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
    Speech of 24 june 1877
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Michael Faraday The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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  • Henry George The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • W. M. Thackeray The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Epictetus The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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